{"id":72516,"date":"2025-07-18T11:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/72516\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:33:10","slug":"apple-sues-leaker-jon-prosser-for-stealing-ios-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/72516\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple sues leaker Jon Prosser for stealing iOS secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Apple has sued the well-known leaker Jon Prosser for the alleged theft of trade secrets related to iOS 26. Prosser has been accused of tasking another man, Michael Ramacciotti, with secretly accessing an Apple employee\u2019s development iPhone and using that information to report on Apple\u2019s planned changes in the then-unannounced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/678305\/apple-ios-26-wwdc-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iOS 26<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/apple-v-prosser.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the lawsuit<\/a>, Apple claims that Prosser offered Ramacciotti \u201cmoney or a future job opportunity\u201d in exchange for access to a company phone belonging to his friend Ethan Lipnik, an Apple software engineer working on iOS. Ramacciotti allegedly learnt Lipnik\u2019s iPhone passcode, used \u201clocation-tracking\u201d to determine when he\u2019d be away from home for an extended period, and then accessed the iPhone running a development version of the mobile OS. Apple says that Ramacciotti showed the software to Prosser over a video call, which Prosser recorded, shared with others, and used to create renders of the new designs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Apple says it found out the details of what happened in April from an anonymous email from someone who claimed to have seen Prosser\u2019s recording of the call and recognized Lipnik\u2019s apartment. The company also claims to have a voice note sent by Ramacciotti to Lipnik, apologizing for the incident and claiming that the subterfuge was Prosser\u2019s idea, which Lipnik in turn provided to Apple. Lipnik was fired by Apple for failing to properly follow its policies around securing unreleased software.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Prosser has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jon_prosser\/status\/1946056858474525097\">responded to the lawsuit on X<\/a>, insisting that Apple\u2019s account is \u201cnot how the situation played out on my end,\u201d and claiming to have evidence to that effect. \u201cI did not \u2018plot\u2019 to access anyone\u2019s phone. I did not have any passwords. I was unaware of how the information was obtained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In its legal filing, Apple asks for both damages and a court order preventing Prosser from disclosing Apple\u2019s trade secrets again. The company adds that while iOS 26 has since been announced to the public, its secrets are still at risk because the development phone \u201ccontained other unannounced design elements.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple has sued the well-known leaker Jon Prosser for the alleged theft of trade secrets related to iOS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[239,21756,2019,50,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-72516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-creators","10":"tag-ios","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114874024159826177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}